Celebrate Global Handwashing Day this 15th of October
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Do you want to be an advocate of good health for your family? Now is your chance!! Today the kids and I will be celebrating Global Handwashing Day by Lifebuoy and taking our pledge as a family to keep ourselves healthy through handwashing.
This is the 5th year that this event has been celebrated and the focus is on ” Help More Chidren Reach Their 5th Birthday”. About 1.5 million children in developing countries have died from diarrhoeal diseases due to poor hygiene and lack of access to proper sanitation. These diseases can be prevented. (Quoting from HPB website)
Hand washing is one simple solution that children can learn to protect themselves against infectious diseases. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), hygiene interventions including hygiene education and promotion of hand washing can lead to a reduction of diarrhoeal cases by up to 45%. By getting children to wash their hands, which is usually the first line of defence against the spread of many diseases, the rate of infection is reduced significantly.
Here in Singapore we are lucky to have good sanitation so the more we should be prudent about keeping clean to prevent our kids from suffering from diarrhoea, acute respiratory diseases and HMFD.
Chase the germs away with soap and water
A bar of soap and water is all the tools that you need to keep the germs at bay. It doesn’t take a long time and washing hands with soap and water. Lifebuoy handwash kills 99.9% of germs in just 10 seconds. Yes it only needs 10s for you to have clean hands.
Frequent handwashing using the proper method of handwashing will prevent your child from falling sick easily or spreading diseases.
Will you be pledging to help a kid reach his 5th birthday?
You can make your pledge along with us at Lifebuoy’s Facebook Pledge Page.
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October 15, 2012 @ 10:02 am
A lot of illnesses could be prevented by simply washing the hands. It can’t be stressed enough especially for children. It’s a very commendable campaign by lifebuoy.
October 15, 2012 @ 12:52 pm
a good campaign for kids, specially at their young age. It will promote a good hygiene and health. Kudos to Lifebuoy!
October 15, 2012 @ 2:47 pm
Hand hygiene is the most effective way in preventing diseases that can easily be communicated. Yet. this is often neglected. This campaign is important to make the parents aware of this.
October 15, 2012 @ 6:23 pm
I’m going to do this with my kids at school today. I usually have a day where we talk about washing hands and how it can help combat diseases and germs. I had no idea there was a day set aside for it!
October 15, 2012 @ 7:14 pm
I work in the hospital and I know handwashing is still the best!!!
It is great they teach young kids now… it is so hard to teach the adults even if they work in the hospital!!!
October 15, 2012 @ 7:19 pm
I always tell my kids to wash their hands after going to the bathroom, or before we have dinner. And I really nééd to tell them, again and again.
October 15, 2012 @ 7:54 pm
I probably get on my daughters nerves telling her to wash her hands all the time, but it’s so important. This is a great campaign.
October 15, 2012 @ 8:51 pm
This is a great campaign. I’m glad we have something similar to this here in the Philippines.
October 16, 2012 @ 8:33 am
One should never underestimate the power of handwashing- the proper way! It’s good that people are being made more aware of this through robust campaigns.
October 16, 2012 @ 2:59 pm
Sometimes I get lax with my boys about handwashing, and then I remember all the germs my 4-year-old is probably bringing home from preschool! They probably feel like I’m nagging, but I bug them all the time to wash their hands. It’s hard to make something intangible–like germs–seem important to little kids, but it’s so important.